I will present the following without editorial comment, except to note that the following comes courtesy of John Aravosis, one of the left’s most prominent bloggers: (HT: My predecessor at this cozy sinecure, Mary Katherine Ham.)

And isn’t it queer that the emergency is declared within a day of Republican party leader Ken Mehlman launching an all-out offensive against Democrats following Joe Lieberman’s loss in Connecticut, an offensive in which Mehlman, the White House and Republican operatives are claiming that Democrats no longer care about national security or the war on terror